Perennial Border Plants To Brighten Your Garden Beds
Easy to grow perennial border plants will add bold color and year-round interest to your garden. List of herbaceous perennial shade plants. The best tall perennials for sun. Buy all types of discount perennial garden plants online.
Easy care perennials are a gardener's best friend. Most perennial plants live for many years, sleeping through the winter and returning each spring. There is no need to repurchase and replant every year as you must with annuals.
Because they multiply and spread as the years go by, divisions can be used to fill new garden beds or traded with neighbors or friends. This makes perennial border plants economical as well as versatile.
Unlike trees and shrubs, which eventually become too big to move, perennials need to be dug up and divided every few years. This gives you the opportunity to "rearrange" your garden furniture.
Planning and Planting a
Perennial Border
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You don't have to spend days planning a perennial bed. Unless you want to.
For some gardeners the planning is as much fun as the planting. If you fall into this category, don't let me ruin your fun. For those of you who, like myself, dread the very thought of having to "design" a garden bed; there's an easier way.
Once you've decided where the bed or border is going to be and prepared the soil, just focus on the tallest plant. This is the plant that will be placed at the back of the border or in the center of the bed if you're planting a bed which can be viewed from all sides. This tall perennial will be the centerpiece of the planting. Decide which plant to use and how many of them you will need. Buy and plant these.
Now, you're looking at something and not just trying to image what it might look like in your head. Some people can imagine what two plants that are not in front of them will look like together. I don't have that gift.
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I need to see the plants together. I'm not embarrassed to confess that I've run outside with a plant catalog in my hand on many occasions. By holding the picture of the plant I'm dreaming about up beside an actual plant in my border, I can get a better idea of how the two will blend.
Or clash.
Once you decide on what you think would look nice in front of the tallest plant, buy that, bring it home and set the pot where you're planning to plant it. Stand back and look at the combination.
When you're sure you really like it, plant the new arrival. Then, go back to the nursery and get the number of plants you need to fill out your planting scheme.
Continue this process until the entire bed is planted.
Here are some ideas to get you started:
The following is a list of perennial plants divided by height.
There is a list of perennial flowers divided by color, here.
Tall Perennial Border Plants
4 Feet+
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List of the best and fastest growing perennial flowers for the back of the border.
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Tall Phlox - sun Delphiniums - sun |
Echinacea 'Ruby Star' - sun Joe-Pye Weed - sun Sneezeweed - sun |
Middle of the Border Perennials
2-4 Feet Tall
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The easy-to-grow perennial garden plants listed here will add color and drama to your landscape for years to come.
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Foxgloves - sun Torch Lily - sun Hardy Lady Slipper - shade Firecracker Plant - sun, tender Shrimp Plant - sun, shade, tender Plumbago - sun, shade, tender Phlox - sun Daylilies - sun, part shade Arkansas Amsonia - sun, shade French Hydrangea - sun, part shade Hardy Chrysanthemum - sun |
Moccassin Flower - shade Black Eyed Susan - sun Double Decker Coneflower - sun Echinacea 'Harvest Moon' - sun Echinacea 'Tiki Torch' - sun Mexican Hat - sun Regal Geraniums - sun, part shade, tender Mexican Petunia - sun, shade, tender Lupins - sun |
Perennial Edging Plants
2 Feet or Shorter
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These perennial flowering plants will shine at the front of the garden bed. You can't beat Dianthus for perennial shade plants with color.
Petunia surfinia is a cascading flowering plant you can use as a groundcover or in a container garden.
Other low-growing perennial garden plants:
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Hardy Geraniums - sun Primrose - sun Petunia surfinia - sun, tender Amsonia tabernaemontana - sun, part shade Dwarf Daylilies - sun, part shade Shasta Daisy - sun, part shade |
Sweet Williams - shade Cheddar Pinks - sun Carnations - sun, tender Zing Rose Dianthus - part shade Fern Peony - sun Fall Mums - sun |
Perennial Ground Cover Plants
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Use perennial ground cover plants to spread a blanket of foliage over bare patches in sun or shade. They are also useful for preventing soil erosion on banks.
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Lantana - sun, tender Ivy - shade Irish Moss - sun Asparagus Fern - sun, shade, tender, invasive |
Blue Festuca Grass - sun Houttuynia - sun, part shade Pachysandra terminalis - heavy shade, deer resistant Daylilies - sun, part shade |
Perennial Xeriscape Plants
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A list of hardy perennial plants for your dry sun or dry shade garden.
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Ruellia Humilis - sun, shade False Red Yucca - sun Festuca Grass - sun, salt tolerant |
Yucca filamentosa - sun Blue Beaked Yucca - sun Blue Agave - sun, shade |
Perennial Bulbs
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Some of the most striking perennial border plants grow from underground bulbs or tubers. Elephant Ears and Caladiums spring immediately to mind.Their boldly colored, large, tender leaves are truly attention-getting.
Other types of perennial border plants that grow from bulbs:
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Tulips - sun Paper White Narcissus - sun, part shade Lily of the Nile - sun, shade, most varieties are tender |
Cyclamen - sun, shade Oxalis triangularis - sun, shade Oxalis stricta - shade Swamp Lily - sun, shade Canna - sun, part shade, tender |
Perennial Climbing Plants
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Climbing plants can be used to cover unattractive landscape features, to create a pleasant view or block an unpleasant one. Planting vines is a great way to add overhead color to your landscape design.
A list of climbing perennial border plants for sun and shade:
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Bougainvillea - sun, tender Clematis - sun, part shade Creeping Fig Vine - sun, shade Vining Roses - sun |
Winter Jasmine - sun, shade Star Jasmine - sun, shade, tender Wisteria sinensis - sun |
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